About the Department of Neurology

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The UC Davis Department of Neurology consists of faculty members who are engaged in clinical care and clinical and basic neuroscience research. There are 24 clinical faculty, 18 research faculty, 15 residents, 3 clinical fellows, 8 postdoctoral research fellows, and 77 administrative, clinical, and research support staff. The Department of Neurology is a comprehensive department of clinical and basic neuroscience because of the presence of clinicians, clinician scientists, and basic scientists, with a strong focus on translation of research results into practice.

Our faculty and staff are committed to the complementary goals of:

Providing high quality neurological care for the people of Sacramento and Northern California;

Achieving new understanding of the nervous system and discovering better ways to diagnose, treat, cure, and comfort those with neurological disease.

Clinical faculty in the department provide instruction in the Neurology 420 course for second year medical students and the Neurology 450 clinical neurology clerkship, an elective for fourth year medical students. Five neurology residents enter the program each year, and the program currently is approved for 15 residents. The department's residency program recently received reaccreditation for five years by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the maximum term possible.

During the past two years, there were more than 15,000 patient visits to the outpatient neurology faculty practice at the UC Davis Health System neurology clinic in Sacramento. In addition, Department of Neurology faculty members care for patients in the UC Davis Primary Care Network (a group of regional clinics) and at the VA Northern California Health Care System hospitals at Mather and Martinez.